I'll take your word for it being that I don't actually use that one, but TortoiseSVN not withstanding there are still many fine open source projects written on top of the.NET Framework as well as a vast corpus of articles, code samples and minor projects all using.NET. So to suggest that.NET just isn't popular in open source, as some seem determined to do, strains credulity at the very least.
Respect for one's enemies has a long tradition throughout history and cultures because having respect for one's enemies allows one to appreciate their strengths while at the same time guarding against one's own weaknesses. Indeed, an enemy can be amongst the greatest of teachers for those willing to observe, listen and learn.
So what has the.NET open source community done in your opinion for which they are being under rewarded?
How about ASP.NET MVC, Web API and Razor? The ASP.NET MVC framework is a modern and high quality web development framework with excellent support for test driven development, dependency injection and fine grained control over handling of requests and responses at every level of the stack. Combine this with clean separation of concerns, easy integration with client side javascript and RESTful handling of URLs and you have a top tier web development platform to rival anything offered by the competition.
Not sure if anyone has gotten the TortoiseSVN project to build in Mono, but it seems that at the very least you would need the.NET Framework 4.0 tools, or Visual C++, to build the project from source.
The.NET developer community has long favored open source code, even though Microsoft hasn't always done much to encourage it. However, it seems that.NET developers never get even grudging respect from the likes of Stallman and other Linux hardliners out there. Ironically, this hostility towards.NET has played into the hands of those at Microsoft who sought to discourage the use of.NET outside of Microsoft's control. Yes, the patent laws are a problem but Microsoft has already made legally binding promises not to litigate their patents on core technologies and to be honest the whole patent system is so messed up that you're pretty much damned if you do and damned if you don't whether you use.NET or not. So, if you're worried about patents you should do what every sensible startup does and simply ignore them because (a) patents contain zero useful information for coders (they're written by attorneys for attorneys) and (b) knowing that a patent exists means willful infringement which is treble damages.
The cable companies could offer service along the same lines as Netflix or Amazon. They don't because they want to preserve subscription revenues and their monopoly power prevents many consumers from having any viable alternatives.
Bundling and channelization are largely relics of the analog past when there was indeed a strictly limited number of "channels" that could be delivered simultaneously to a network of connected devices. However, the Internet has long since removed any technical barriers to effectively infinite "channels" while at the same time concentrating all potential viewers of content, no matter how niche, into a single reachable market, sometimes referred to as The Long Tail. Technically, there's no reason why ala-carte shouldn't work except that the powers that be in the cable and broadcast monopolies don't want it and use their power and money to both lobby against it in the political arena and cripple it through contracts that threaten massive retaliation against any studio that dares to sell their first run content on a competing network or distribution channel.
Except that it doesn't really replace them in the sense that any of these more specialized aircraft is better, and probably as we are now learning cheaper, at its specialized niche role. The F-35 is fast becoming the jack of all trades, master of none, that so often results when compromises are made in so called multi-role military aircraft. Take for example the A-10. It's tough, reliable and survivable; perfectly suited to the ground attack role. It even has a backup control system so that complete loss of hydraulic pressure will not render the aircraft uncontrollable. The F-16 is one of the most successful US fighters of all time and a favorite of many friendly airforces around the world, including Israel and Qatar, who have also made their own indigenous upgrades, modifications and improvements to the platform to further increase it's combat effectiveness. There's definitely something to be said for improving, upgrading and refining a combat tested aircraft instead of simply throwing it all out in favor of a new and untested design. Finally, to your point on cost, it's not at all clear that upgrading and maintaining our existing fleet of aircraft would be any more expensive than building enough F-35s to "replace" all of them.
i don't think if i work 2 hours a week i deserve to get paid more than starving chinese people, but i still bargain for the best deal i can get.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. If you and your employer or clients agree to a free (as in freedom) exchange, then it was by definition acceptable to all parties. The worth of any good or service, including labor, is always in the eye of the beholder. Therefore, it's pointless to talk about what's "deserved" as if it were something independent of the contract itself.
but seeing ignorant, inflamatory posts getting modded +5 gets a little old, you know?
Perhaps, but it's absolutely understandable. I don't think it would be too far off the mark to characterize the average Slashdotter as left of center and as with many on the left, they're intelligent but they tend to get it wrong when it comes to economics or finance. Indeed, some of them even take pride in their ignorance or convince themselves that they know precisely how the economy works, all evidence to the contrary. One thing's for sure, many of them could certainly benefit from a careful cover-to-cover reading of Mankiw's Principles of Economics
You'd be better off emulating the calculator in an app,
Ah, I understand. Yes, that could be done although the typical android device is not as large as the actual calculator so it might be a bit difficult to display the full panel of buttons at once without having some way to drag a "viewing window" of the android phone screen around the virtual calculator keypad or some method to switch between viewing the virtual calculator screen and the keypad. It should probably also be noted that an emulator of this type, especially one that allows loading and execution of separate programs, would probably not be possible on iPhone without jail breaking because Apple specifically bans those type of emulators or programs that load and execute dynamic code or other programs specifically to prevent developers from circumventing their app store.
The TI-83/84 and also the HP 48/50 series calculators have vast libraries of available math functions and decades worth of programs created by generations of calculator users. Even if the phone apps can match some or even most of the built-in features they would still be wanting if they couldn't load and execute programs written in the TI-BASIC or RPL languages. The full programmable calculator arguably still serves a certain niche.
I agree, it's absolutely a relevant question. As all regular calculator users know, Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) is a much more efficient method of inputting and computing complex functions or large series of calculations with a minimal number of keystrokes. Although it's not as common today, engineers of a certain vintage will probably remember with fondness their HP-41 Series or perhaps even the HP-67 or HP-65 (for the real old-timers) programmable calculators.
So your cited figure is a bit disingenuous, being that it ignores roughly 60% of the state's actual funding.
California has a high rate of borrowing and bond indebtedness which is not sustainable over the long run. If you're going to include unsustainable borrowing in "actual funding" then yes education receives less than 50% of the "total". Its sort of like counting your available lines of credit as income because you could max out your credit cards to achieve this higher level of "income". Be that as it may, you will note that in every year since 1988, when Proposition 98 was passed, the spending from the general fund, which receives most tax revenues, has been at or above the 50% minimum mandated by law.
As for per student spending, it would be interesting to see if that was simply the result of the number of students divided by total budget or if administrative costs were subtracted before getting that number. I can't point to any specific study on this, but it seems to me that here in California at least we have too many administrators chasing too few teachers and classroom resources. Perhaps if they didn't spend so much on administration there would be more left over for the students?
In my experience the government is too cheap and doesn't pay enough to attract the best contractors while at the same time being notoriously difficult to work with. The government employees who are in charge of leading the project and making decisions are capricious and often have their own agenda or career goals which they happily place ahead of the ultimate success of the project. In the end their bungling interference frustrates even the most motivated subcontracts before the job is even close to complete. The projects can also succumb to external pressures as opposing factions within the government play politics and maneuver to kill the project or divert funds to slow progress for political reasons.
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I'll take your word for it being that I don't actually use that one, but TortoiseSVN not withstanding there are still many fine open source projects written on top of the .NET Framework as well as a vast corpus of articles, code samples and minor projects all using .NET. So to suggest that .NET just isn't popular in open source, as some seem determined to do, strains credulity at the very least.
Respect for one's enemies has a long tradition throughout history and cultures because having respect for one's enemies allows one to appreciate their strengths while at the same time guarding against one's own weaknesses. Indeed, an enemy can be amongst the greatest of teachers for those willing to observe, listen and learn.
So what has the .NET open source community done in your opinion for which they are being under rewarded?
How about ASP.NET MVC, Web API and Razor? The ASP.NET MVC framework is a modern and high quality web development framework with excellent support for test driven development, dependency injection and fine grained control over handling of requests and responses at every level of the stack. Combine this with clean separation of concerns, easy integration with client side javascript and RESTful handling of URLs and you have a top tier web development platform to rival anything offered by the competition.
Not sure if anyone has gotten the TortoiseSVN project to build in Mono, but it seems that at the very least you would need the .NET Framework 4.0 tools, or Visual C++, to build the project from source.
How about these to name just a few?
Plus tons more available on:
The .NET developer community has long favored open source code, even though Microsoft hasn't always done much to encourage it. However, it seems that .NET developers never get even grudging respect from the likes of Stallman and other Linux hardliners out there. Ironically, this hostility towards .NET has played into the hands of those at Microsoft who sought to discourage the use of .NET outside of Microsoft's control. Yes, the patent laws are a problem but Microsoft has already made legally binding promises not to litigate their patents on core technologies and to be honest the whole patent system is so messed up that you're pretty much damned if you do and damned if you don't whether you use .NET or not. So, if you're worried about patents you should do what every sensible startup does and simply ignore them because (a) patents contain zero useful information for coders (they're written by attorneys for attorneys) and (b) knowing that a patent exists means willful infringement which is treble damages.
The cable companies could offer service along the same lines as Netflix or Amazon. They don't because they want to preserve subscription revenues and their monopoly power prevents many consumers from having any viable alternatives.
Bundling and channelization are largely relics of the analog past when there was indeed a strictly limited number of "channels" that could be delivered simultaneously to a network of connected devices. However, the Internet has long since removed any technical barriers to effectively infinite "channels" while at the same time concentrating all potential viewers of content, no matter how niche, into a single reachable market, sometimes referred to as The Long Tail. Technically, there's no reason why ala-carte shouldn't work except that the powers that be in the cable and broadcast monopolies don't want it and use their power and money to both lobby against it in the political arena and cripple it through contracts that threaten massive retaliation against any studio that dares to sell their first run content on a competing network or distribution channel.
The size of your screen?
Some screens are larger than others.
A few of them have future part-time musicians. The rest just make noise.
And yet the taxpayers continue funding it. Fascinating.
Salaries in most industries are higher than average in that region.
So be flexible. Be willing to open satellite offices in other parts of the country or to hire more remote workers. This isn't rocket science.
Except that it doesn't really replace them in the sense that any of these more specialized aircraft is better, and probably as we are now learning cheaper, at its specialized niche role. The F-35 is fast becoming the jack of all trades, master of none, that so often results when compromises are made in so called multi-role military aircraft. Take for example the A-10. It's tough, reliable and survivable; perfectly suited to the ground attack role. It even has a backup control system so that complete loss of hydraulic pressure will not render the aircraft uncontrollable. The F-16 is one of the most successful US fighters of all time and a favorite of many friendly airforces around the world, including Israel and Qatar, who have also made their own indigenous upgrades, modifications and improvements to the platform to further increase it's combat effectiveness. There's definitely something to be said for improving, upgrading and refining a combat tested aircraft instead of simply throwing it all out in favor of a new and untested design. Finally, to your point on cost, it's not at all clear that upgrading and maintaining our existing fleet of aircraft would be any more expensive than building enough F-35s to "replace" all of them.
Read the book and leave the name calling to the second graders, where it belongs.
i don't think if i work 2 hours a week i deserve to get paid more than starving chinese people, but i still bargain for the best deal i can get.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. If you and your employer or clients agree to a free (as in freedom) exchange, then it was by definition acceptable to all parties. The worth of any good or service, including labor, is always in the eye of the beholder. Therefore, it's pointless to talk about what's "deserved" as if it were something independent of the contract itself.
but seeing ignorant, inflamatory posts getting modded +5 gets a little old, you know?
Perhaps, but it's absolutely understandable. I don't think it would be too far off the mark to characterize the average Slashdotter as left of center and as with many on the left, they're intelligent but they tend to get it wrong when it comes to economics or finance. Indeed, some of them even take pride in their ignorance or convince themselves that they know precisely how the economy works, all evidence to the contrary. One thing's for sure, many of them could certainly benefit from a careful cover-to-cover reading of Mankiw's Principles of Economics
Americans have serious trouble with long-term thinking these days.
Indeed they do, how else can we explain four more years of Obama?
A few years has it been since last picked up an HP calculator have I.
You'd be better off emulating the calculator in an app,
Ah, I understand. Yes, that could be done although the typical android device is not as large as the actual calculator so it might be a bit difficult to display the full panel of buttons at once without having some way to drag a "viewing window" of the android phone screen around the virtual calculator keypad or some method to switch between viewing the virtual calculator screen and the keypad. It should probably also be noted that an emulator of this type, especially one that allows loading and execution of separate programs, would probably not be possible on iPhone without jail breaking because Apple specifically bans those type of emulators or programs that load and execute dynamic code or other programs specifically to prevent developers from circumventing their app store.
Yes, meant parent grand the what precisely that's.
The TI-83/84 and also the HP 48/50 series calculators have vast libraries of available math functions and decades worth of programs created by generations of calculator users. Even if the phone apps can match some or even most of the built-in features they would still be wanting if they couldn't load and execute programs written in the TI-BASIC or RPL languages. The full programmable calculator arguably still serves a certain niche.
I agree, it's absolutely a relevant question. As all regular calculator users know, Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) is a much more efficient method of inputting and computing complex functions or large series of calculations with a minimal number of keystrokes. Although it's not as common today, engineers of a certain vintage will probably remember with fondness their HP-41 Series or perhaps even the HP-67 or HP-65 (for the real old-timers) programmable calculators.
There have been other stores before but none with branded electronics.
RadioShack always offered their own branded items in their retail outlets. This has been done before, it's nothing new.
So your cited figure is a bit disingenuous, being that it ignores roughly 60% of the state's actual funding.
California has a high rate of borrowing and bond indebtedness which is not sustainable over the long run. If you're going to include unsustainable borrowing in "actual funding" then yes education receives less than 50% of the "total". Its sort of like counting your available lines of credit as income because you could max out your credit cards to achieve this higher level of "income". Be that as it may, you will note that in every year since 1988, when Proposition 98 was passed, the spending from the general fund, which receives most tax revenues, has been at or above the 50% minimum mandated by law.
As for per student spending, it would be interesting to see if that was simply the result of the number of students divided by total budget or if administrative costs were subtracted before getting that number. I can't point to any specific study on this, but it seems to me that here in California at least we have too many administrators chasing too few teachers and classroom resources. Perhaps if they didn't spend so much on administration there would be more left over for the students?
In my experience the government is too cheap and doesn't pay enough to attract the best contractors while at the same time being notoriously difficult to work with. The government employees who are in charge of leading the project and making decisions are capricious and often have their own agenda or career goals which they happily place ahead of the ultimate success of the project. In the end their bungling interference frustrates even the most motivated subcontracts before the job is even close to complete. The projects can also succumb to external pressures as opposing factions within the government play politics and maneuver to kill the project or divert funds to slow progress for political reasons.
Please mod the parent up insightful, he makes an excellent point that managers everywhere would do well to understand.